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Finest Sterling Grapes & Vines Branch Handle Loving Cup
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You are viewing a historically important and stunningly beautiful aesthetic grapes, leaves and vines three branch handle loving cup by Gorham. This piece has it all, featuring highly relief and 3-dimensional grape clusters, curly vines with corkscrew ends, leaves and three strikingly life-like branch handles. The realism, quality, craftsmanship and aesthetic beauty of this loving cup is truly unsurpassed, the best of its kind. It is the work of a master silvermsith. Made by Gorham in 1899, when they were making some of their finest aesthetic movement and award winning sterling holloware. It was pulled out of their archives in 1969 and presented as a 1 st . place award trophy from the Oak Tree Racing Association, given to the Howard B. Keck horse racing team, featuring William Shoemaker. Howard Keck was the billionare philanthropist who started the Keck Foundation and William Shoemaker is without question the most famous and successful jockey who ever lived. Aparently Howard Keck was an avid horsebreeder and racer who hired Shoemaker as his Jockey for many years. They won many races as a team. This loving cup trophy is built like a tank and is extremely massive at 1965 grams, that is 69.5 oz of thick, heavy gauge sterling silver. The trophy is so heavy it's hard to lift out straight with one arm. The side walls of the cup are almost 1/8" thick. Marked on the bottom with the Gorham Hallmarks...Lion, Anchor, G - Sterling - 8 Pint. Also marked with the 3 sided trident, Gorham date mark for 1899. This loving cup is truly one of a kind. Condition is MINT. No dings, scratches, repairs or monograms asside from the inscriptions, which I would assume give add significant collectors value to the piece. Willie Shoemaker 1st. Place Trophys are hard to find ! and one of this quality and antiquity...how could you do better? I have never polished the trophy in the 2 years I owned it and it still retains much of its original patina. I have only lightly cleaned it twice with a silver cloth. Silver like this seldom comes up for auction on ebay. Now is your chane to get something very special. I paid $5000 for this piece in May 2005 on Ebay, for those of you who might remember. Has the market for this item gone up or down since then? Let's find out. I offer this piece at no reserve so no is your chance to get a possible bargain on a historically significant and incredibly high end sterling loving cup. The value of the beautiful trophy is only sure to go up over years. This is a 7 day, no reserve, paypal only auction to USA registered addresses only.I repeat. This is a paypal only auction. Paypal payment only from a registered USA address, NO EXCEPTIONS. Paypal payment within 24 hours of auction close results in FREE shipping and insurance, thus saving you $45. The grapes, leaves and vines are applied to the body of the trophy, not imprinted or stamped. Dimensions are as follows: 8-5/8 inches from top to bottom, 8-3/8 inches from top of handles to the bottom, handle to handle to handle (t is three handles) is 10.1 inches, diameter of opening at top is 7-1/8 inches, widest near bottom diameter is approximately 8 inches, bottom diameter is 5-3/4 inches. The sidewalls are 1/8 inches thick, the heaviest gauge holloware I have ever seen by far. This trophy is extremely massive and heavy. The quality is unsurpassed. I am confident the winning bidder will be blown away by this trophy. Please message me if additional pictures or information is needed. For additional payment options, I have decided to accept money orders or checks from well established bidders only. I would consider well established bidders to be those with over 200 feedback score and a feedback history without non-payment or fraud issues. The trophy ships after money order or check clears the bank and right away with paypal. Paypal is the pr...
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